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Python GUI Programming Cookbook
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Python GUI Programming Cookbook

by Burkhard Meier
December 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
350 pages
6h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating robust GUIs using unit tests

Python comes with a built-in unit testing framework and, in this recipe, we will start to use this framework to test our Python GUI code.

Before we start to write unit tests, we want to design our testing strategy. We could easily intermix the unit tests with the code they are testing, but a better strategy is to separate the application code from the unit test code.

Note

PyUnit has been designed according to the principles of all the other xUnit testing Frameworks.

Getting ready

We will test the internationalized GUI we created earlier in this chapter.

How to do it...

In order to use Python's built-in unit testing framework, we have to import the Python unittest module. Let's create a new module and name it UnitTests.py ...

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